Vla-di-mir
Russian Federation
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I understand the perception, my answer would probably be heard from all sides "Come unto me" "I came and now I'm a new man," "Glory glory I am glad that I met this doctrine," But what I mean by the answer. What can I get in the house of God. All peoples have only warm and bright ideas of paradise. I think everyone will utter a whole list of what he wants to get into the kingdom of God. (of course a good understanding of this: calmness and pacification, and not his wife a prostitute and cocaine business, and a gang of killers to boot) In Orthodox teaching, there are many of the kingdom of God. Think like a child, the warmth and kindness, which formed a normal child from the mother, and God will give, as you know for adults. God – is love. Where no love – there is no God. The great Russian saint Seraphim of Sarov said: "The purpose of the worldly life of ordinary people are acquiring or earning money, and the nobility, moreover – to receive honors, distinctions and other rewards for state services. Acquiring God's Spirit is also capital, but grace and eternal .. . Word of God, our Lord, the God-man Jesus Christ likens the life of our market place … earthly goods – a virtue, for the sake of the cause of Christ and has given us the grace of the Holy Spirit … " Here is the full text http://lib.eparhia-saratov.ru/books/03v/veniamin/paternoster/10.html The second question about the meaning of the Trinity. God is united on the merits, but troichen in persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the consubstantial and indivisible Trinity. The dogma of the Holy Trinity is incomprehensible, it is the dogma of the mysterious, unfathomable level of reason. For the human mind the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is contradictory, because it is a mystery which can not be expressed rationally. The mystery of the Holy Trinity is conceived, but only partly, in the experience of spiritual life. This realization is always fraught with ascetic feat. VN Lossky says: "Apofa-matic ascent is the ascent to Calvary, and therefore no speculative philosophy could never rise to the mysteries of the Holy Trinity." VN Lossky said that the doctrine of the Trinity "is not only the foundation, but the ultimate goal of theology, because … learn the secret of the Holy Trinity in its fullness – then enter in the divine life, the very life of the Blessed Trinity."
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